iPhone: I love free apps that do one thing right and look good doing it. That's what Interviewy is for someone in need of turning their iPhone into a dictaphone for lectures, interviews or any other voice recording.

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The gorgeous app keeps thing simple. Start a new recording by swiping up, pause or end the recording by swiping down. Tap the big speech bubble (called a TypeTag marker) at any point to bookmark a particular important point in the recording; keep the TypeTag marker held down for longer passages of time.

All of your recordings are automatically saved to the cloud, making it easy to retrieve them on your iPhone or iPad—a Mac or PC app would have been nice though, since the transcribing usually happens on a proper computer. And I also miss the ability to add notes or take photos like Cogi for Android, but perhaps I'm asking for too much. The only real issue I have with Interviewy is that it doesn't keep the iPhone screen on, so in long recording, you'll need to wake it up, put in your password and only then hit the TypeTag marker—you may have missed the important point by then.